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        <h1 id="overview">Overview</h2>

            <p>This page explains the Angular initialization process and how you can manually initialize Angular
                if necessary.</p>

            <h2 id="angularscripttag">Angular <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> Tag</h3>

                <p>This example shows the recommended path for integrating Angular with what we call automatic
                    initialization.</p>

<pre class="prettyprint linenums">
&lt;!doctype html&gt;
&lt;html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org" ng-app&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
    ...
    &lt;script src="angular.js"&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</pre>

                <ul>
                    <li>Place the <code>script</code> tag at the bottom of the page. Placing script tags at the end of
                        the page
                        improves app load time because the HTML loading is not blocked by loading of the <code>angular.js</code>
                        script. You can get the latest bits from <a href="http://code.angularjs.org">http://code.angularjs.org</a>.
                        Please don't link
                        your production code to this URL, as it will expose a security hole on your site. For
                        experimental development linking to our site is fine.
                        <ul>
                            <li>Choose: <code>angular-[version].js</code> for a human-readable file, suitable for
                                development and
                                debugging.
                            </li>
                            <li>Choose: <code>angular-[version].min.js</code> for a compressed and obfuscated file,
                                suitable for use in
                                production.
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </li>
                    <li><p>Place <code>ng-app</code> to the root of your application, typically on the <code>&lt;html&gt;</code>
                        tag if you want
                        angular to auto-bootstrap your application.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;html ng-app&gt;
</code></pre>
                    </li>
                    <li><p>If IE7 support is required add <code>id="ng-app"</code></p>

<pre><code>&lt;html ng-app id="ng-app"&gt;
</code></pre>
                    </li>
                    <li><p>If you choose to use the old style directive syntax <code>ng:</code> then include
                        xml-namespace in <code>html</code>
                        to make IE happy. (This is here for historical reasons, and we no longer recommend use of
                        <code>ng:</code>.)</p>

<pre><code>&lt;html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org"&gt;
</code></pre>
                    </li>
                </ul>

                <h2 id="automaticinitialization">Automatic Initialization</h3>

                    <p>Angular initializes automatically upon <code>DOMContentLoaded</code> event, at which point
                        Angular looks for
                        the <a href="api/ng.directive:ngApp"><code><code>ng-app</code></code></a> directive which
                        designates your application root. If the <a
                                href="api/ng.directive:ngApp"><code><code>ng-app</code></code></a> directive is found
                        then Angular
                        will:</p>

                    <ul>
                        <li>load the <a href="guide/module">module</a> associated with the directive.</li>
                        <li>create the application <a href="api/AUTO.$injector"><code>injector</code></a></li>
                        <li>compile the DOM treating the <a
                                href="api/ng.directive:ngApp"><code><code>ng-app</code></code></a> directive as the root
                            of the compilation. This allows you to tell it to treat only a
                            portion of the DOM as an Angular application.
                        </li>
                    </ul>

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&lt;!doctype html&gt;
&lt;html ng-app="optionalModuleName"&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
    I can add: {{ 1+2 }}.
    &lt;script src="angular.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</pre>

                    <h2 id="manualinitialization">Manual Initialization</h3>

                        <p>If you need to have more control over the initialization process, you can use a manual
                            bootstrapping method instead. Examples of when you'd need to do this include using script
                            loaders
                            or the need to perform an operation before Angular compiles a page.</p>

                        <p>Here is an example of manually initializing Angular:</p>

<pre class="prettyprint linenums">
&lt;!doctype html&gt;
&lt;html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org"&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
    Hello {{'World'}}!
    &lt;script src="http://code.angularjs.org/angular.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;script&gt;
       angular.element(document).ready(function() {
         angular.bootstrap(document, ['optionalModuleName']);
       });
    &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</pre>

                        <p>Note that we have provided the name of our application module to be loaded into the injector
                            as the second
                            parameter of the <a href="api/angular.bootstrap"><code>api/angular.bootstrap</code></a>
                            function. This example is equivalent to using the
                            <a href="api/ng.directive:ngApp"><code>ng-app</code></a> directive, with <code>ng-app="optionalModuleName"</code>,
                            as in the automatic
                            initialization example above.</p>

                        <p>This is the sequence that your code should follow:</p>

                        <ol>
                            <li><p>After the page and all of the code is loaded, find the root element of your AngularJS
                                application, which is typically the root of the document.</p></li>
                            <li><p>Call <a href="api/angular.bootstrap"><code>api/angular.bootstrap</code></a> to <a
                                    href="guide/compiler">compile</a> the element into an
                                executable, bi-directionally bound application.</p></li>
                        </ol>
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